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- 0:03Speaker 1: Welcome the late Plase. Good evening and thanks for joining
- 0:08Speaker 1: us on. I'm James macpherson with Joe Hildebrand and the brilliant,
- 0:11Speaker 1: wonderful Nika did George, I'm compensating the last night's introduction.
- 0:16Speaker 2: We thank you. That's very kind.
- 0:17Speaker 3: The bitter that that was the sort of introduction that
- 0:20Speaker 3: I would expect on a nightly basis.
- 0:22Speaker 4: James, not sporadically, you are literally brilliant in that jumpsuit.
- 0:26Speaker 4: I mean that is that is like so much. Was
- 0:28Speaker 4: there a particular name for that shade of red? Because
- 0:31Speaker 4: it feels electric, quite bright, whelming, literally brilliant. I feel
- 0:36Speaker 4: like I should be wearing sunglasses.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Well, look, thank you for the compliments, gents, but I
- 0:40Speaker 3: actually think that the one who deserves a compliment tonight
- 0:42Speaker 3: is James McPherson, who would have to be the artist
- 0:46Speaker 3: working bloke on the channel this evening at.
- 0:48Speaker 2: A double shift.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Well, I filled in for Caleb who was unwell at
- 0:52Speaker 1: eight o'clock, but I had the pleasure of having you
- 0:54Speaker 1: on the panel.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Go, that's exactly right, and then we thought that that
- 0:57Speaker 4: was just the dress rehearsal. We'll do it properly this
- 0:59Speaker 4: time round and don't forget half of the show. Make
- 1:01Speaker 4: sure you tuned in for the Read a Penny Show
- 1:03Speaker 4: with James McPherson and Year's Night.
- 1:06Speaker 1: Well, let's get into the late debate. Here's what's coming
- 1:09Speaker 1: up tonight and the Albert Easy breaks another promise, this
- 1:13Speaker 1: time to Indigenous people, and just wait until you hear
- 1:16Speaker 1: his latest excuse. Speaking of Indigenous people, an Indigenous elder
- 1:20Speaker 1: claims he was told to delete his statement on social
- 1:24Speaker 1: media that welfare dependency was the biggest killer of Aboriginal people,
- 1:28Speaker 1: and Scotland Greens are investigating a transgendered university employee, also
- 1:33Speaker 1: a Greens party member who posted online that he hoped
- 1:36Speaker 1: murdered Conservative politician Anne Whitcombe suffered an agonizing death. We'll
- 1:42Speaker 1: get to all of that shortly, but first, every parent
- 1:45Speaker 1: knows what it's like when you warn your children there
- 1:48Speaker 1: will be consequences if they don't cut out their bad behavior,
- 1:51Speaker 1: and they decide to test your resolve. Well, a fed
- 1:55Speaker 1: up father has boasted online that he taught his disobedient
- 1:58Speaker 1: son a lesson by proving consequences were not idle threats.
- 2:02Speaker 1: He threw his son's computer game out of the car window.
- 2:06Speaker 5: He threw my son's intental switch up the car by son.
- 2:09Speaker 5: He's thirteen year his mill. He wasn't even playing the switch.
- 2:13Speaker 5: You've just had it. I was like, keep going, I'm
- 2:16Speaker 5: gonna throw your switch out the window. He's like, no,
- 2:18Speaker 5: you're not, grab it. Gone, that's frisbee this thing. I mean,
- 2:24Speaker 5: it felt pretty good.
- 2:27Speaker 1: So some people have applauded dad for teaching his son
- 2:31Speaker 1: bad behavior has consequences, but just as many have slammed
- 2:34Speaker 1: him for humiliating his child. Denika, you would have been
- 2:38Speaker 1: in trouble all the time as an only child. So
- 2:41Speaker 1: is this poor parenting or an example that we should
- 2:44Speaker 1: all follow.
- 2:45Speaker 3: I think it's actually an example of great parenting. I mean,
- 2:48Speaker 3: if the kids being a little bugger and isn't paying attention,
- 2:51Speaker 3: isn't following.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Direction, and you know, Dad said, deal with.
- 2:56Speaker 3: The consequences if you don't, if you don't behave, and
- 2:58Speaker 3: I'm going.
- 2:58Speaker 2: To take away your playstay or your controller. Kids are smart.
- 3:02Speaker 2: They know when you're joking.
- 3:03Speaker 3: They can absolutely manipulate the situation. So Dad throws it
- 3:06Speaker 3: out the window and teaches the kid a lesson. I
- 3:08Speaker 3: don't see what the problem with that is. This article
- 3:10Speaker 3: described it as an extreme level of parenting.
- 3:13Speaker 2: That's not extreme to me.
- 3:14Speaker 3: I think that's just basic disciplinary action. I think, and
- 3:19Speaker 3: you'd also said in that article I had to laugh
- 3:21Speaker 3: that an American father took his young daughter to a
- 3:23Speaker 3: police station after she found out after the father found
- 3:28Speaker 3: out that she was bullying a peer. Now, I guarantee
- 3:30Speaker 3: you that kid never bullied a peer ever again, because
- 3:34Speaker 3: sometimes you just got to frighten kids a little bit
- 3:37Speaker 3: and they won't argue, so no good on him.
- 3:40Speaker 4: I threatened to smash my kid's computer, mobile, phone, PlayStation,
- 3:45Speaker 4: Nintendo switch where you name it all the time, every
- 3:49Speaker 4: day and have never once followed through. And I stand
- 3:52Speaker 4: by that because I actually I find this really disturbing.
- 3:58Speaker 4: To be honest. I think it's it's aggressive behavior. I
- 4:03Speaker 4: think it shows your son that you have poor impulse control.
- 4:06Speaker 4: It's also littering. Have we thought about that? You thought
- 4:10Speaker 4: about that? I'll tell you one thing about one biodegradable
- 4:16Speaker 4: And I think instead of having you know and again
- 4:19Speaker 4: and posting about on social media what a dick move,
- 4:22Speaker 4: you know it's.
- 4:23Speaker 2: Not that bad.
- 4:23Speaker 3: I think he was just explaining, well, we just got
- 4:26Speaker 3: to we can't be tiptoeing.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Around you know, the snowflake brigadon.
- 4:29Speaker 4: Why did he have to post it on social media?
- 4:31Speaker 2: Why not? I mean, he probably just wanted to share
- 4:32Speaker 2: his frustration with other parents.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Well, apparently there is a whole sort of trend going
- 4:36Speaker 4: on where parents do try to sort of out extreme
- 4:40Speaker 4: each other or talk about the latest sort of hardcore
- 4:42Speaker 4: parenting move they pulled. So I actually reckon the parents
- 4:46Speaker 4: as a as addicted to screens and technology as they
- 4:49Speaker 4: complain the kids are and b immature and if possibly
- 4:54Speaker 4: actually overreacting to their kid, traumatizing their kids just so
- 4:59Speaker 4: they can.
- 5:00Speaker 3: It's just discipline. It's saying, don't do that. And he
- 5:03Speaker 3: called his kid a little effer.
- 5:05Speaker 2: If the kid's teach the kid a lesson.
- 5:10Speaker 4: Having your dad call you a little fer in the
- 5:12Speaker 4: public domain for the.
- 5:13Speaker 2: Rest of it in a public domain.
- 5:16Speaker 3: I do agree with that, that is, you don't do
- 5:18Speaker 3: things like that. That I agree with, But that the
- 5:20Speaker 3: act of throwing out the console.
- 5:22Speaker 2: I don't have a problem.
- 5:23Speaker 1: My problem with that. First he posts online, I think
- 5:26Speaker 1: that says something about the dad. Second, he calls his
- 5:29Speaker 1: son a little effer. If you can't control your words,
- 5:32Speaker 1: you're not going to control the rest of your behavior.
- 5:34Speaker 1: As the father, you're trying to teach your son self discipline,
- 5:38Speaker 1: maybe exercise a little yourself. I reckon the key to
- 5:41Speaker 1: disciplining kids is don't discipline them in the heat of
- 5:44Speaker 1: the moment. I used to tell my boys, when you
- 5:47Speaker 1: get home, we will go to your room and we
- 5:49Speaker 1: will deal with this. And they knew what that meant.
- 5:51Speaker 1: It'd be a snack and they will tell you to
- 5:53Speaker 1: this day. The half hour drive home expecting what was
- 5:57Speaker 1: going to come, that was like worst punishment.
- 6:01Speaker 4: For They've made me scared. What do you do now
- 6:02Speaker 4: they're bigger than you.
- 6:03Speaker 1: Well, they smacked me now, But you're right, Joe, You've
- 6:08Speaker 1: got to follow through. That's that's the other things fine through.
- 6:13Speaker 1: But there's a.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Difference between being strict and being firm and not being
- 6:17Speaker 4: in control. And this guy looks to me like a
- 6:19Speaker 4: douchebag who's not in control.
- 6:20Speaker 1: I made of mine when I was growing up, he
- 6:23Speaker 1: stole some magazines from a news agency and so he
- 6:27Speaker 1: was caught and so they held him there. It's only
- 6:29Speaker 1: about eleven years old at the time.
- 6:31Speaker 4: What sort of magazines are we talking?
- 6:33Speaker 1: I think it was TV Week and so anyway, the
- 6:37Speaker 1: news agent rang my mate's mum and said, we've got
- 6:40Speaker 1: your son here. We caught him shoplifting. Will you come
- 6:44Speaker 1: and collect him? And my mate's mum said, have you
- 6:48Speaker 1: called the police and they said no, we're calling you,
- 6:50Speaker 1: and she said, well, I will get there after the
- 6:52Speaker 1: police have dealt with him. Let me know and I'll
- 6:55Speaker 1: tell you what. He never stole anything ever.
- 6:57Speaker 3: I mean, sometimes I'm not saying to really put the
- 7:00Speaker 3: fear of God in a child, but sometimes you've just
- 7:02Speaker 3: got to push the push it a little bit to
- 7:05Speaker 3: make them scared enough that they're not going to make
- 7:08Speaker 3: the same mistakes again. So I applaud that mother because
- 7:11Speaker 3: that kid will never ever shoplift ever again in his life.
- 7:15Speaker 1: I've met your parents who are delightful, and I'm sure
- 7:17Speaker 1: they're watching the program. I can't imagine that you would
- 7:19Speaker 1: ever have been in trouble at home because your parents
- 7:22Speaker 1: you're the apple of their eye and the I just
- 7:24Speaker 1: can't imagine you're doing bad stuff.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Look, there was one year at Christmas I only got
- 7:28Speaker 3: one Christmas gift from Santa because I was.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Very naughty that year.
- 7:32Speaker 3: And I tell you this, I was never naughty again
- 7:35Speaker 3: because I only got one gift.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Oh my god, so there is a least true.
- 7:39Speaker 2: It's true.
- 7:39Speaker 1: This is last year.
- 7:41Speaker 2: This is absolutely last year. This last year. But yeah again,
- 7:45Speaker 2: like I.
- 7:46Speaker 4: Remember that very Nintendo switch because it may not.
- 7:48Speaker 2: End well, no, it was probably a Barbie dollhouse.
- 7:50Speaker 3: It come on, Barbie's come on, I'm a gowl over here, Joe,
- 7:55Speaker 3: what are you saying.
- 7:55Speaker 4: That's the other thing. Switches are really not to be
- 7:58Speaker 4: boring and return to the actual topic. But the switches
- 8:00Speaker 4: are expensive, Like the new one's like seven hundred bucks.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Seven hundred.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Yeah, so this one was four hundred and fifty or something.
- 8:08Speaker 4: That might be American And if that's the new one,
- 8:10Speaker 4: that'd be about seven hundred. That's just it. It's a
- 8:13Speaker 4: waste of money. And did I mention the littering. It's littering.
- 8:18Speaker 1: You did mention that although someone else got a free
- 8:20Speaker 1: Nintendo switch.
- 8:20Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's it. Now.
- 8:22Speaker 3: Look, somebody who's well upset a lot of people would
- 8:27Speaker 3: be Anthony Albanese, I know, Prime Minister for something different.
- 8:31Speaker 3: He's upset a lot of people at home. This is
- 8:34Speaker 3: because of another broken promise by Anthony Albanesi. Now, he
- 8:38Speaker 3: declared last year that he would attend the indigenous culture
- 8:42Speaker 3: gathering that is the Garma Festival over in arnham Land
- 8:45Speaker 3: every single year while he is Prime Minister. But just
- 8:49Speaker 3: twelve months after that promise, he's now declared that he
- 8:53Speaker 3: will not be going to this year's Garma Festival.
- 8:56Speaker 2: Why well, in his own words.
- 9:00Speaker 6: Had a day off all year, all year, Jeeves.
- 9:06Speaker 2: And here I thought, you know, his word was his bond.
- 9:09Speaker 2: I just stuck.
- 9:10Speaker 3: I can't believe he's broken that promise. So basically he's saying,
- 9:14Speaker 3: I haven't had a day off in a year. I
- 9:16Speaker 3: haven't had a day off this year.
- 9:18Speaker 2: I'm a little bit exhausted.
- 9:19Speaker 3: I'm not going to be able to travel to the
- 9:21Speaker 3: Garma Festival this year.
- 9:23Speaker 2: And you know what it reminds me of.
- 9:24Speaker 3: It reminds me of some of his classic other commentary
- 9:27Speaker 3: like I was in the car, I didn't hear that
- 9:30Speaker 3: what I was in Melbourne, So I haven't been able
- 9:33Speaker 3: to deal with that. It also reminds me about two
- 9:36Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five dollars in power bill relief that
- 9:39Speaker 3: we were promising. And what about the taxes, the taxes
- 9:41Speaker 3: and negative gearing. No, that's all broken promises as well. Look,
- 9:47Speaker 3: Anthony Garbaneese. You gonna have to explain it, aren't you
- 9:49Speaker 3: to the indigenous festival yourself.
- 9:51Speaker 4: Yeah, well he's obviously going to go back. He's going
- 9:53Speaker 4: to some other indigenous events and I think another indigenous
- 9:57Speaker 4: festival in the Northern Territory in a few days time.
- 10:00Speaker 4: And I don't know why he went out of his
- 10:02Speaker 4: way to say I promise here and now, in front
- 10:04Speaker 4: of all these cameras that I will return every single year.
- 10:06Speaker 1: And then, oh, I think I can tell you why.
- 10:08Speaker 1: But I care about Indigenous people, not like the other mob.
- 10:12Speaker 1: I'm one of you. I've got your back until it's
- 10:15Speaker 1: not convenient to them.
- 10:16Speaker 4: But I think it is a fair point that politicians
- 10:20Speaker 4: work like absolute dogs, that whatever's striped politics. Maybe with
- 10:24Speaker 4: some exceptions, but generally speaking, and he especially, I know,
- 10:28Speaker 4: works incredibly hard. Like you don't have any weekends. You're
- 10:31Speaker 4: doing something every night, you're up all hours talking to
- 10:35Speaker 4: other foreign leaders or welcome welcoming foreign dignitaries. I mean,
- 10:40Speaker 4: it's a pretty I mean, I know they get a
- 10:42Speaker 4: bit of coin for it, but jeez, they work hard.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Couldn't he have scheduled his time off around the Gama festival,
- 10:48Speaker 3: given that he promised that he would. I mean, he
- 10:50Speaker 3: could have taken a couple of days off a week after.
- 10:53Speaker 3: He could have taken a couple of days off a
- 10:55Speaker 3: week earlier.
- 10:56Speaker 4: I had his ea. There was a scheduling mix up.
- 10:58Speaker 4: You know, maybe maybe.
- 10:59Speaker 3: It's hoped to be a scheduling mix up. He's known
- 11:03Speaker 3: about the Garma Festival for months.
- 11:04Speaker 1: I don't know how kind of offensive that he said, Look,
- 11:08Speaker 1: I'm not going to be at the Garma Festival, which
- 11:09Speaker 1: I promised to be at, but you know, I met
- 11:11Speaker 1: another indigenous festival. It's almost like, you know, they're all
- 11:16Speaker 1: kind of the same. Is that not a lot?
- 11:19Speaker 4: To be honest? I think it's more that he has
- 11:21Speaker 4: to go to these other things in the Northern Territory.
- 11:23Speaker 4: It's what an eight hour plane trip to get there.
- 11:26Speaker 4: It's a long while and wae not add but it's
- 11:30Speaker 4: a long way. And if he's already doing it for
- 11:32Speaker 4: all these other things, I think he probably figured that,
- 11:34Speaker 4: you know, making three trips or whatever it is in
- 11:36Speaker 4: a week is maybe a bit march.
- 11:39Speaker 2: But you had time to do a podcast though.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Oh with the bush Deep Lady, he worked out well.
- 11:45Speaker 1: Probably wishes that he did.
- 11:47Speaker 4: He couldn't gone to the actual bush.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, or he could have come back from Fiji
- 11:51Speaker 3: and taken a couple of days off then after his work.
- 11:54Speaker 1: I agree with you that politicians work hard, and you
- 11:56Speaker 1: don't bludge anybody having a holiday. At the same time,
- 12:00Speaker 1: I'm not sure that many people would hear Anthony alban
- 12:02Speaker 1: Easy complain I haven't had a day off all year,
- 12:07Speaker 1: and they'd hear that and all of a sudden feel
- 12:09Speaker 1: incredibly sympathetic, especially the way the country is going. Sure,
- 12:13Speaker 1: take your days off and have your holidays and enjoy it.
- 12:15Speaker 1: We don't begrudge it. But no need to tell us
- 12:18Speaker 1: how hard you work.
- 12:19Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 12:19Speaker 3: No, Speaking of holidays, Pauline Hansen remains on her little
- 12:24Speaker 3: overseas jaunt. Of course, she's just been doing her tour
- 12:27Speaker 3: of the UK, visiting places like Luton, and she thought, well,
- 12:30Speaker 3: I've had enough of Luton, so I'm going to head
- 12:32Speaker 3: to Sicily, where she's gone to the beautiful Talmina at
- 12:37Speaker 3: a luxury resort. Actually she's there with mining magnate Gina
- 12:41Speaker 3: ryan Hart. I guess it begs the question is it
- 12:45Speaker 3: time for Pauline Hanson to come home? Because she's been
- 12:48Speaker 3: away for a couple of weeks now there has been
- 12:50Speaker 3: some polling that has suggested that she is dipping a
- 12:53Speaker 3: little bit in the poles.
- 12:54Speaker 4: Of course, dipping a little bit in that pool just there.
- 12:57Speaker 2: She's well, look, she's in Tarmina. That's what you do,
- 12:59Speaker 2: I suppose you.
- 13:00Speaker 4: I'd be more worried about the fact that she's for
- 13:03Speaker 4: the first time overtaken labor among blue collar voters. And
- 13:06Speaker 4: then you've got pictures of her in Sicily at a
- 13:09Speaker 4: five star resort with the richest woman in Australia. Doesn't
- 13:12Speaker 4: exactly scream working class hero to me.
- 13:16Speaker 3: I think it's time for Pauline probably to come home.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure people judge that harshly. Maybe they do, Joe,
- 13:23Speaker 1: but I think people appreciate, you know what, you can
- 13:25Speaker 1: stand up for the working class and be well enough,
- 13:29Speaker 1: well well off enough to enjoy a luxury holiday the
- 13:33Speaker 1: two and not.
- 13:34Speaker 3: No.
- 13:34Speaker 4: I think that's true. And I think often when the
- 13:36Speaker 4: left not we say the fact that I just sort
- 13:38Speaker 4: of made the same point, but the left often mistakes
- 13:40Speaker 4: like I think people look at that and say, I
- 13:42Speaker 4: don't care if she's hanging out with billionaires. I just
- 13:43Speaker 4: want to know what she's going to do for me.
- 13:45Speaker 4: And again we've seen the exact same phenomenon with Donald
- 13:49Speaker 4: Trump in the US. But again I still don't think
- 13:52Speaker 4: it is the I mean, that is the thing that
- 13:56Speaker 4: most people are sort of talking about and thinking about
- 13:59Speaker 4: right now. And you know, you've got Malcolm Roberts, you know,
- 14:04Speaker 4: shooting off at the hip about Kem trails and and
- 14:08Speaker 4: liking you know, anti Semitic murals and stuff, you know,
- 14:13Speaker 4: and we say, oh, where's the leader in all this?
- 14:15Speaker 4: It's a bit like when the network goes down and tells, oh,
- 14:18Speaker 4: where's the tells your letter she's off jet setting or anything.
- 14:20Speaker 4: So it's not necessarily that people, you know, envy what
- 14:23Speaker 4: she's got or say I don't like her because she's
- 14:26Speaker 4: hanging out with billionaires. It's more, look the joints falling down.
- 14:30Speaker 4: The party's tanking or not panking, but it's dipping in
- 14:33Speaker 4: the piles that's probably peaked and maybe going backwards. There's
- 14:38Speaker 4: a whole lot of scrutiny being applied to you know,
- 14:40Speaker 4: all the antics. You've got allies like Andrew Bolt now
- 14:44Speaker 4: saying what the hell is going on and say, oh, yeah,
- 14:47Speaker 4: where's Paul Lene, where's going to fix it. She's off
- 14:49Speaker 4: at a five star resort in Sicily. It's Gena rein Hart.
- 14:53Speaker 1: I'm not sure what her UK trip has achieved for Australians.
- 14:58Speaker 1: It's great she's getting some tips from Nigel Farage. I
- 15:01Speaker 1: don't understand why you can't do that just subtly and
- 15:05Speaker 1: quietly without doing a whole tour of the UK, which
- 15:08Speaker 1: most Aussie voters would say, how does this GOP?
- 15:12Speaker 2: I disagree.
- 15:13Speaker 3: I disagree because her angle is I don't want Australia
- 15:17Speaker 3: to become like the UK, and so now she can
- 15:19Speaker 3: come back to Australia with a whole selling point of
- 15:22Speaker 3: I've toured the places that have apparently been you know,
- 15:25Speaker 3: Islam suffered with Islamification, like luten for example, and she
- 15:29Speaker 3: can give you examples of this is what I witnessed.
- 15:32Speaker 2: I don't want Australia to come to become this, so
- 15:35Speaker 2: I think. So it does play to her bass.
- 15:37Speaker 3: I do think, because there are a lot of her
- 15:38Speaker 3: base that I very very worried as the problem.
- 15:41Speaker 1: You're playing to your base like your base are with you, right, Yeah, No,
- 15:44Speaker 1: I know that playing to the people who are on
- 15:46Speaker 1: the fence and trying to work out does she have
- 15:49Speaker 1: good judgment. Is this a person that could seriously run
- 15:51Speaker 1: the country. Can she pull together a team who are
- 15:54Speaker 1: disciplined and stay in their lanes. But I think those
- 15:57Speaker 1: are the questions were ask.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Her, like she's going down the partway of Nigel Farage,
- 16:01Speaker 3: because that's how Niger Farage gained his popularity.
- 16:04Speaker 4: Doesn't like Tony Robinson.
- 16:06Speaker 2: I'm not talking about Tommy Robinson.
- 16:08Speaker 3: By going out to these areas, speaking to people and
- 16:10Speaker 3: having the guardsmen. Don't forget that Niger Farrag was the
- 16:12Speaker 3: one who was on a dingy in the middle of
- 16:14Speaker 3: dover looking.
- 16:15Speaker 4: At him, condemned Tommy Robinson.
- 16:17Speaker 3: Because I'm not talking about Tommy Robinson. And I'm not
- 16:21Speaker 3: talking about Tommy Robinson. I'm talking about when he goes
- 16:24Speaker 3: out to the I mean, I feel like Pauline would
- 16:27Speaker 3: go out on a dinghy in the middle of.
- 16:28Speaker 4: The line actually hanging out with Tommy Robinson.
- 16:31Speaker 2: I'm not talking about Tommy Robinson. I'm just what it was.
- 16:33Speaker 2: More to James's point, why is she doing this?
- 16:35Speaker 3: I just think that it just follows a trajectory of
- 16:39Speaker 3: leaders like Niger Farrage, where they do these big, bold things.
- 16:41Speaker 2: It gets a reaction.
- 16:42Speaker 3: It gets people talking and it does play to the back.
- 16:45Speaker 4: I think Niger Farrage gets to where he is by
- 16:48Speaker 4: showing that there is a line and having the discipline
- 16:51Speaker 4: not to go over it.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Well, while Pauline Hanson is oversees the Liberals back home
- 16:57Speaker 1: talking about themselves again, I thought that's stopped. But no, no.
- 17:01Speaker 1: An internal paper that's been distributed to Liberal Party members
- 17:06Speaker 1: during the week proposes that the way they could become
- 17:10Speaker 1: more electorally palatable would be by getting more women into
- 17:14Speaker 1: the party, and so the issue of gender quotas has
- 17:17Speaker 1: raised its head again. The Liberal discussion paper says, and
- 17:21Speaker 1: I quote, if it's necessary, if it's increasingly clear that
- 17:25Speaker 1: if serious progress is to be made in delivering greater
- 17:28Speaker 1: gender balance in our parliamentary team, additional measures will be required.
- 17:33Speaker 1: None of them would be easier or without complication or
- 17:36Speaker 1: resistance from some However, if we want a different outcome,
- 17:40Speaker 1: we need to be prepared to do things differently. Well,
- 17:44Speaker 1: some of the resistance is coming from the Liberal leader
- 17:47Speaker 1: Angus Taylor. Is what he had to say about gender
- 17:50Speaker 1: quotas today.
- 17:52Speaker 6: I've never supported any quote at all, but what I
- 17:56Speaker 6: do support, what I do support is more great people
- 18:00Speaker 6: joining the Liberal Party, and more great people women and
- 18:03Speaker 6: from all sorts of backgrounds.
- 18:05Speaker 1: I have long believed.
- 18:07Speaker 6: That we have to rebuild our parties.
- 18:09Speaker 4: There's an enormous amount of work to do.
- 18:11Speaker 6: I welcome the work of the Commission, and I strongly
- 18:15Speaker 6: support that regeneration rebuild of the party that we need.
- 18:21Speaker 1: So this is my problem with the coalition. They can't
- 18:23Speaker 1: stay on one topic for more than thirty seconds before
- 18:27Speaker 1: they're distracted by something. So last I heard from Angus Taylor.
- 18:31Speaker 1: He was attacking Pauline Hanson and One Nation. Right. You
- 18:34Speaker 1: can argue whether or not that was smart, but that's
- 18:37Speaker 1: what he decided to do and that's what was getting
- 18:39Speaker 1: him headlines. You know, one Nation will be an eternity
- 18:42Speaker 1: of pain if you elect them to run the government.
- 18:45Speaker 1: So that was his line. Well thirty seconds later, now
- 18:49Speaker 1: they're discussing gender quotas within the Liberal Party. They just
- 18:53Speaker 1: can't stay on script.
- 18:55Speaker 3: No, But I feel like that's come from the moderates
- 18:58Speaker 3: of the party. I don't know where they've They've thought,
- 19:01Speaker 3: you know what, we're just going to pop out gender
- 19:03Speaker 3: quotas right now, because that, you know, is that the mood.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Of the party. No, they failed to read the.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Room once James McGrath was the person who was heading
- 19:11Speaker 1: up the development of this internal discussion.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Exactly a moderate, a moderate.
- 19:16Speaker 1: And also a coalition figure.
- 19:18Speaker 3: Which is such a shame really because you're right, once again,
- 19:20Speaker 3: the focus is on them. As a woman, I can't
- 19:23Speaker 3: tell you how offensive the prospect of being selected just
- 19:27Speaker 3: because you're a woman actually is not based on merit,
- 19:30Speaker 3: not because you're the right person for the job, not
- 19:32Speaker 3: because you deserve to be there.
- 19:34Speaker 2: And it's not only it actually discriminates against men. To
- 19:37Speaker 2: be honest, I think as a male.
- 19:39Speaker 3: I don't know what your view on it is, but
- 19:41Speaker 3: it also says that a woman needs help to achieve
- 19:43Speaker 3: her goals, a woman needs help to achieve success. Whatever
- 19:46Speaker 3: happened to just go getters? Have ever happened to women
- 19:49Speaker 3: with a drive? And there are so many women out
- 19:51Speaker 3: there with that drive, and yet the Liberal Party are
- 19:53Speaker 3: going down this bizarre left pathway, not getting back to
- 19:57Speaker 3: their core principles that Menzies put in play for the
- 20:00Speaker 3: Liberal Party. And I just think it's such a shame
- 20:02Speaker 3: that we're talking about this yet again.
- 20:04Speaker 2: How many times has it been brought up?
- 20:06Speaker 3: Yes, I agree that you do need to get more
- 20:08Speaker 3: women into the party, but a lot of that you
- 20:10Speaker 3: can do through policies like good childcare policies and you know,
- 20:14Speaker 3: to help actually bring women on board, get more women
- 20:18Speaker 3: voting for the party. But if you do remember though,
- 20:21Speaker 3: in the lead up to the last election women the
- 20:23Speaker 3: polling suggested that women were actually more inclined to vote
- 20:26Speaker 3: for Peter Dutton, but that got killed off with that
- 20:29Speaker 3: disastrous work from Home initiative and that was like the
- 20:32Speaker 3: real red flag for the party.
- 20:35Speaker 2: So the desire is there.
- 20:37Speaker 3: I just think it needs to be through policies, not
- 20:39Speaker 3: through gender quotes.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Let me play Devil's advocate. Gender quotas have worked very
- 20:43Speaker 1: well for Labor. They've got fifty three percent of their
- 20:46Speaker 1: caucuses female and they're in government and I.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Don't know what a woman is. So it's a good idea.
- 20:51Speaker 2: I don't know what a woman. Well.
- 20:52Speaker 4: The parody is that the gender quotas that Labor brought
- 20:57Speaker 4: in under in New south I was called the N
- 20:59Speaker 4: forty rule, which meant that head office could just come
- 21:03Speaker 4: in and override a branch branch level pre selection and say,
- 21:10Speaker 4: I know, we've got too many blokes across the board,
- 21:13Speaker 4: we're going to put it in women. And it was
- 21:14Speaker 4: basically just used by the factions to settle all their scores.
- 21:18Speaker 4: So the right would just use it to roll all
- 21:20Speaker 4: the left blokes and replace them with right we women,
- 21:23Speaker 4: And maybe the left might try to do that now,
- 21:26Speaker 4: but thankfully we've filled the quota so they can't. So
- 21:29Speaker 4: it wasn't Actually it was actually in many ways quite
- 21:32Speaker 4: a and I really obviously enjoyed it. It was actually
- 21:37Speaker 4: even more cynical and less ideologically fewer than the system beforehand.
- 21:42Speaker 4: But I still don't like quotas, and I don't think
- 21:44Speaker 4: I think labor wins. More and more women are attracted
- 21:48Speaker 4: to labor because of the values that labor has or
- 21:52Speaker 4: that they believe labor to have. There was some really
- 21:55Speaker 4: interesting polling that came out this week that shows women
- 21:58Speaker 4: voters overwhelmingly reward things like compassion and consideration and sort
- 22:06Speaker 4: of niceness if you like, for one of a better
- 22:08Speaker 4: word in political leaders than men do. Men want leaders
- 22:12Speaker 4: to be tough and knowledgeable and competent and everything women rate,
- 22:18Speaker 4: believe it or not, Compassion almost as high as competency
- 22:22Speaker 4: in the Parliament came out this way, and so it's
- 22:25Speaker 4: what different, you know, and you might argue that that
- 22:28Speaker 4: makes women more inclined to be lean towards the left,
- 22:31Speaker 4: and there's a lot of evidence that sort of suggests
- 22:33Speaker 4: that as well. But the Libs, obviously, you know, are
- 22:37Speaker 4: in just this complete identity crisis. And you've got you're
- 22:40Speaker 4: absolutely right, You've got moderates on one side who think,
- 22:43Speaker 4: if we don't move to the left, we are going
- 22:45Speaker 4: to be wiped out. And you've got conservatives on the
- 22:48Speaker 4: other side who are saying, if we don't move to
- 22:50Speaker 4: the right, we're going to be wiped out. And so
- 22:53Speaker 4: both of these you know, again I keep likning it
- 22:56Speaker 4: to the sort of to the Reformation. You've got these
- 22:58Speaker 4: two people who think we are facing a battle for
- 23:02Speaker 4: our very survival right here. Our life depends on this,
- 23:06Speaker 4: and so there are no rules, and so they think, well,
- 23:08Speaker 4: it doesn't matter, you know, if people think we're naval gazing.
- 23:13Speaker 4: We have got to do this. It doesn't matter if
- 23:14Speaker 4: it's unhelpful, whatever. Have to do this. Otherwise we're all
- 23:16Speaker 4: going to die. Yeah, And that's what both sides think,
- 23:19Speaker 4: and and it's hard to know out of it, but
- 23:21Speaker 4: you mentioned Mensis mensis, the liberal party of Mensis was
- 23:25Speaker 4: in the words of John Howard, I don't know if
- 23:26Speaker 4: it was Mensis himself who first coined it. It is
- 23:29Speaker 4: a broad church. It only works if it is a
- 23:32Speaker 4: broad church. It only achieves the critical mass needed to
- 23:35Speaker 4: win an election in a compulsory preferential vote if it
- 23:40Speaker 4: accommodates people from the center right all the way to
- 23:44Speaker 4: the right right. And the problem is there are two
- 23:46Speaker 4: new parties that have simply taken that big chunk away
- 23:48Speaker 4: on the right by one nation, big chunk away on
- 23:50Speaker 4: the left by the tiers, and there is simply not
- 23:52Speaker 4: enough Liberals left. And if they keep squabbling like this,
- 23:56Speaker 4: there'll be half as many anyway. Another interesting thing that
- 24:01Speaker 4: came up today is we all saw, of course, the
- 24:05Speaker 4: corporate Australia, and this was part of its downfall. Of course,
- 24:08Speaker 4: Corporate Australia overwhelmingly backed the Voice, the Indigenous Voice to Parliament,
- 24:13Speaker 4: and you know Quantas, Telstra, all these huge you know,
- 24:17Speaker 4: my good friend Twiggy Forrest and his companies, Mindau and
- 24:23Speaker 4: all the rest all backed Fortescue, all backed the Voice
- 24:28Speaker 4: to Parliament. But when it comes to actually particular indigenous voices,
- 24:33Speaker 4: or at least one indigenous voice, in particular, a company
- 24:36Speaker 4: has been accused of actually silencing it. Now, this is
- 24:41Speaker 4: Roy RC. He's Wurradjuri elder. He's for anyone who's familiar
- 24:45Speaker 4: with sort of indigenous affairs. He's a very well known,
- 24:48Speaker 4: very senior public figure. He's a former chairman of the
- 24:52Speaker 4: New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council. This is not you know,
- 24:55Speaker 4: this is not some rando. This is a really sin senior,
- 24:58Speaker 4: well respected, sious guy. And he says that he was
- 25:04Speaker 4: asked to take down a video he posted on social
- 25:08Speaker 4: media talking about welfare dependency and what a problem was.
- 25:13Speaker 4: He says that he was told to take it down
- 25:16Speaker 4: by a mining company simply because he happened to reference
- 25:19Speaker 4: the fact that he'd given an address to that mining
- 25:21Speaker 4: company in passing. This is him on two GB talking
- 25:25Speaker 4: to Ben Fordham today.
- 25:27Speaker 7: The scourge on our community isn't drugs, alcohol and gambling.
- 25:32Speaker 7: It's the lack of opportunity to realize the importance of
- 25:36Speaker 7: economic empowerment. And that's why I went out and spoke
- 25:39Speaker 7: on NADOC Day to this company. So the issue wasn't
- 25:42Speaker 7: the post, it's the process. And so when you've got
- 25:46Speaker 7: self appointed people or self appointed claimers that think they're
- 25:50Speaker 7: above the law and they don't have to answer to anybody.
- 25:54Speaker 7: Then they intimidate corporates and companies.
- 25:57Speaker 4: Now I'm not going to name the company, and and
- 26:01Speaker 4: I don't think there's any need to name the company,
- 26:03Speaker 4: although it is all on the public record. They know
- 26:05Speaker 4: who they are, and Roy certainly knows who they are.
- 26:08Speaker 4: And you would just have to think what kind of
- 26:11Speaker 4: morals would any company have by telling an Indigenous man
- 26:17Speaker 4: who one they invite to speak to their employees so
- 26:19Speaker 4: they can sort of tick the box that you know,
- 26:21Speaker 4: they're all right in the reconciliation action plan, which I'm
- 26:25Speaker 4: sure they've got. It's all, you know, all going strong.
- 26:28Speaker 4: And then they tell him, oh, I know, you are
- 26:30Speaker 4: not allowed to post something on your social media. You're
- 26:35Speaker 4: not allowed to express your own opinion as an Indigenous
- 26:38Speaker 4: elder because you've just sort of mentioned us in passing
- 26:41Speaker 4: and ooh, it's about this. I mean it was actually
- 26:43Speaker 4: talking about this. That is the stuff that we need
- 26:45Speaker 4: to be doing to close the gap and fix the problem.
- 26:48Speaker 1: It's the problem that the indigenous speaker Anika did not
- 26:50Speaker 1: say indigenously things because clearly they have an idea about
- 26:53Speaker 1: what an Indigenous person will say, and then when the
- 26:56Speaker 1: indigenous person didn't say what the Indigenous people are supposed
- 26:59Speaker 1: to say, we better get that off social media. So
- 27:03Speaker 1: there's no blowback.
- 27:04Speaker 3: Correct it's this usual, Oh we better just clean up
- 27:06Speaker 3: the mess, you know, because of political correctness.
- 27:08Speaker 2: We've got to be very careful what we say.
- 27:10Speaker 3: And we've seen this so much in Australia, the real
- 27:13Speaker 3: reluctance to actually talk about Indigenous issues and what's going on.
- 27:17Speaker 3: You know, we've seen it in the last couple of
- 27:19Speaker 3: months over in Alice Springs in particular. We tiptoe around
- 27:23Speaker 3: it because we don't want to offend people though we
- 27:26Speaker 3: can see with our very eyes what's going on. Don't
- 27:28Speaker 3: forget that Royalcy and he even said that he has
- 27:31Speaker 3: grown up in this environment. He has grown up with
- 27:33Speaker 3: welfare dependency and poverty.
- 27:35Speaker 2: So if anyone's.
- 27:36Speaker 3: Credible to talk about it, it's somebody like Royalcy.
- 27:40Speaker 2: And the facts are in his favor.
- 27:41Speaker 3: There's about half of all Indigenous adults in Australia relying
- 27:45Speaker 3: on government income support, so what he's talking about is
- 27:49Speaker 3: not nonsense.
- 27:50Speaker 2: And we since all.
- 27:51Speaker 1: The time, right, So Senator just into Naputimber Price. If
- 27:55Speaker 1: she talks about issues such as domestic violence within some
- 27:58Speaker 1: Abidginal communities, she gets slammed from all carters on the left.
- 28:03Speaker 1: Ye because whether or not it's true, that's just not
- 28:06Speaker 1: something that Indigenous people should be talking about, which feels
- 28:10Speaker 1: like the height of racism when you decide that a
- 28:13Speaker 1: person because of the color of their skin can only
- 28:15Speaker 1: have these talking points and can't have those.
- 28:18Speaker 4: What about the racism towards all the Indigenous women who
- 28:20Speaker 4: are suffering domestic violence anywhere up to you know, thirty
- 28:25Speaker 4: times the rate of non Indigenous women who have to
- 28:27Speaker 4: keep copying it because the left doesn't want to even
- 28:31Speaker 4: acknowledge that it exists.
- 28:32Speaker 3: This is the thing, and if you don't actually talk
- 28:33Speaker 3: about it, how are you going to address the disparity?
- 28:36Speaker 3: And you should be listening to leaders in the community
- 28:38Speaker 3: like just int A Nampajimber Price, like people like Roy
- 28:41Speaker 3: RC who know it firsthand.
- 28:43Speaker 2: But if we don't talk about it, then we're never
- 28:45Speaker 2: going to solve it.
- 28:45Speaker 3: And as for these corporations and companies who continuously tell
- 28:49Speaker 3: us what to think and how to think, I think
- 28:51Speaker 3: that at a big reality.
- 28:52Speaker 4: Only if we only if we think the right things.
- 28:54Speaker 2: Yeah. Correct.
- 28:55Speaker 4: Now, speaking of domestic violence are the massive issue in
- 28:58Speaker 4: the news this week obviously was the question of the
- 29:01Speaker 4: removal of this statue of former AFL great Nikki Windmar,
- 29:06Speaker 4: the iconic statue of his incredible photograph where he ripped
- 29:11Speaker 4: up his shirt his jersey pointed to the color of
- 29:14Speaker 4: his skin in response to racism abuse. He was coppying
- 29:17Speaker 4: from the crowd and this was just after he'd kicked
- 29:20Speaker 4: a goal. He let his feet through the talking. He
- 29:23Speaker 4: has now been stripped of his membership of the AFL
- 29:28Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, as well as having the statue being
- 29:31Speaker 4: torn down, and he has said this is of course
- 29:35Speaker 4: after he was convicted of domestic violence and really nasty,
- 29:39Speaker 4: serious domestic violence which he slammed a woman's head I
- 29:44Speaker 4: think four times and she said she was in fear
- 29:47Speaker 4: of her life. However, he is appealing that decision, so
- 29:52Speaker 4: that's something to keep in mind. But he has been
- 29:56Speaker 4: removed from the AFL Hall of Fame, and Winmar has
- 30:00Speaker 4: accused the AFL of hypocrisy because others who have been
- 30:05Speaker 4: accused of similar things, although not convicted, have still retained
- 30:11Speaker 4: their membership. And Nikki Winmar said in his first comment
- 30:15Speaker 4: since this again, I am appealing the verdict and would
- 30:18Speaker 4: also like some clarity from the AFL as to why
- 30:21Speaker 4: there are other players in the Australian Football Hall of
- 30:24Speaker 4: Fame who have been found guilty of similar charges and
- 30:28Speaker 4: why I have been removed before the appeal has even
- 30:33Speaker 4: been heard. Now. One example that springs to mind is
- 30:36Speaker 4: someone who it was publicly reported committed a really nasty
- 30:39Speaker 4: act of domestic violence against his partner, but she did
- 30:42Speaker 4: not press charges, and therefore, of course he was not
- 30:46Speaker 4: actually convicted or charge, let alone found guilty. So I'm
- 30:50Speaker 4: not sure if that was what hi Winma was referring to,
- 30:54Speaker 4: but certainly seems that for some people it does take
- 30:57Speaker 4: an awful lot to get kicked out of the AFL
- 30:59Speaker 4: Hall of That. Nikki bin Mart's all a bit too
- 31:02Speaker 4: hot and they've got to, you know, just erase it all,
- 31:05Speaker 4: pretend it never happened, so don't look at it.
- 31:08Speaker 1: The criteria for being inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame,
- 31:11Speaker 1: there's about five criteria. The most obvious of course is
- 31:15Speaker 1: you have to have been a great AFL footballer, but
- 31:19Speaker 1: integrity and character does come into it. Now that's when
- 31:22Speaker 1: you're inducted. The change and how they're going to manage this,
- 31:26Speaker 1: I don't know, is that they're now looking at character
- 31:28Speaker 1: and integrity, not just when you're inducted, but I guess
- 31:32Speaker 1: for the rest of your life and beyond. If they
- 31:35Speaker 1: discover something about you after you're dead, I suppose, And
- 31:38Speaker 1: so that changes the whole scenario, right, because now they're
- 31:41Speaker 1: going to be applying things retrospectively to your status in
- 31:46Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, which I think, whilst it might
- 31:48Speaker 1: be noble in intent, is a very difficult thing to do.
- 31:53Speaker 4: It's like to make his parents at Christmas time.
- 31:55Speaker 2: That's exactly.
- 31:57Speaker 1: It's very difficult to be consistent. And I suppose that's
- 32:00Speaker 1: Nicky win Mar's point. Not that I think he'll get
- 32:02Speaker 1: much sympathy, but his point I think is still valid.
- 32:06Speaker 2: I think, so today, how are.
- 32:07Speaker 1: They going to be consistent in this when it's highly subjective?
- 32:10Speaker 2: Well, that's it.
- 32:11Speaker 3: And I think there have been so many players who
- 32:13Speaker 3: have done outstanding things on the football field, not all
- 32:16Speaker 3: of them in the Hall of Shame, but in the
- 32:19Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, sorry, the whole of goodness, sorry, the
- 32:22Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. You know, the standouts that I can
- 32:24Speaker 3: think of. Obviously, Ben Cousins is one of them, and
- 32:27Speaker 3: there were questions whether or not Heat would be inducted.
- 32:30Speaker 3: He obviously left football and had a very very long
- 32:34Speaker 3: publicized drug history as well as going in and out
- 32:37Speaker 3: of court.
- 32:37Speaker 2: Other West Coast Eagles players.
- 32:39Speaker 3: Daniel Chick, Daniel Kerr, a lot of them have left
- 32:42Speaker 3: football and have gone down a wayward path. I don't
- 32:47Speaker 3: think that we can possibly judge them on the path
- 32:49Speaker 3: that they have entered into once they've left football.
- 32:52Speaker 2: I think we judge them for their behavior.
- 32:54Speaker 3: And their conduct, and their sportsmanship and their athleticism on
- 32:58Speaker 3: the field. There's no sympathy for win Maar in this situation,
- 33:02Speaker 3: but I actually understand his point.
- 33:04Speaker 4: Think it's got to be either good for one or
- 33:07Speaker 4: good for none, that is the point.
- 33:09Speaker 1: So I mean, they could make a rule, right, so
- 33:11Speaker 1: if you get a criminal conviction, you're out. But then
- 33:13Speaker 1: we're going to have an argument because not all criminal
- 33:15Speaker 1: convictions are equally as obnoxious in the public.
- 33:18Speaker 4: That's right. What about the thing that you know, something
- 33:21Speaker 4: that everyone knows, it's been publicly said, you know, hasn't
- 33:25Speaker 4: even really been denied, I don't think. But but you
- 33:27Speaker 4: know that, but there hasn't because the victim hasn't actually
- 33:30Speaker 4: pressed charges. In the case the other one, there were
- 33:33Speaker 4: other charges that he did plead guilty to of harassing,
- 33:37Speaker 4: and an off duty police officer tried to intervene in
- 33:40Speaker 4: the other decision. But again it just goes say, all right,
- 33:42Speaker 4: so does that just make it too messy? So we'll
- 33:45Speaker 4: let him keep you keep on carry on in the
- 33:47Speaker 4: Hall of fame or is it just you know, no,
- 33:50Speaker 4: we've got a nice clear cutcase for Nikki win Ma here,
- 33:53Speaker 4: even though he's obviously appealing. Has he come through?
- 33:57Speaker 1: Can we not just say an incredible foot player, ye,
- 34:01Speaker 1: greatly flawed human being?
- 34:02Speaker 2: Correct?
- 34:03Speaker 1: We hold those two things at the same pathing.
- 34:04Speaker 4: You can absolutely or maybe just have the statue up
- 34:07Speaker 4: there and every time see people look at it. Maybe
- 34:11Speaker 4: we should think more about domestic violence and indigenous communities.
- 34:14Speaker 2: We should pay I'm with you, I'm with you all
- 34:16Speaker 2: the way.
- 34:16Speaker 3: Let's go over to Scotland now, where an Aberdeen University
- 34:20Speaker 3: employee is being investigated for comments they made following the
- 34:23Speaker 3: death of former MP and Whittakomb.
- 34:27Speaker 2: This is Heather Herbert, who posted.
- 34:32Speaker 3: On their social media just before this was a murder investigation,
- 34:37Speaker 3: they wrote, and some good news for once. I hope
- 34:40Speaker 3: it was an extremely painful death, and I hope she
- 34:43Speaker 3: was handcuffed to the bed as she screamed in agony.
- 34:47Speaker 3: But the reason why this has become such a big
- 34:49Speaker 3: story was is that this Heather Herbert, is a member of.
- 34:53Speaker 2: The Greens Party. Chaka.
- 34:56Speaker 3: There no shock at all, and so now the Greens
- 34:59Speaker 3: Party actually in Scotland is investigating this. But this is
- 35:03Speaker 3: not the first time that Heather has been involved in
- 35:06Speaker 3: comments like this.
- 35:07Speaker 2: Heather and her boyfriend, So you know when he was shot?
- 35:12Speaker 4: What did he what did he say?
- 35:13Speaker 2: He was like literally this question.
- 35:19Speaker 3: So sorry that those comments were made in relation to
- 35:22Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk.
- 35:24Speaker 4: So Heather really loves a political assassin.
- 35:26Speaker 2: It clearly loves it a political assassination.
- 35:28Speaker 3: But you know what, I really worry about the reaction
- 35:31Speaker 3: that I've seen on social media in particular to the
- 35:33Speaker 3: ad Whitticker death.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Don't forget the heart of all this.
- 35:35Speaker 3: A woman has died, an innocent woman has has died,
- 35:38Speaker 3: and now this is.
- 35:38Speaker 2: A murder investigation.
- 35:40Speaker 3: And just because you don't agree with their politics, it
- 35:42Speaker 3: doesn't mean that you have to act like a complete
- 35:45Speaker 3: nutter and post on social media, suspect.
- 35:48Speaker 4: That it was she was targeted because of her political beliefs.
- 35:51Speaker 4: It wasn't actual politically, if you possibly.
- 35:54Speaker 3: You've got a problem with politics, take it out in
- 35:57Speaker 3: the ballot box, don't take it out on another individual.
- 35:59Speaker 4: Do you know what's a though? The UK cops are
- 36:02Speaker 4: going around arresting everybody for not following COVID rules or
- 36:07Speaker 4: being too racist. Police Scotland received complaints about this post
- 36:13Speaker 4: where she said I hope she dies an extremely painful
- 36:15Speaker 4: death and she was handcuffed to the better she screamed
- 36:17Speaker 4: in agony. They received complaints about the post, but initially
- 36:21Speaker 4: said the information had been assessed and no criminality had
- 36:24Speaker 4: been established, so this one's actually fine. So however, on
- 36:30Speaker 4: Tuesday afternoon, suddenly the police said we received reports on Saturday,
- 36:34Speaker 4: eleventh of July range were post made online, presumably the
- 36:37Speaker 4: same complaints they were talking about the first time, but
- 36:39Speaker 4: they now say, following further assessment, additional inquiries are being
- 36:44Speaker 4: carried out.
- 36:45Speaker 1: If someone is murdered because of their political views and
- 36:48Speaker 1: then you glory in their murder because of their political views,
- 36:52Speaker 1: that's very close to incitement, is it not. Inciting people
- 36:56Speaker 1: to commit similar crimes against people with similar.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Political You know why, because all its this is one
- 37:01Speaker 3: person not of sound mind to call it to be
- 37:04Speaker 3: a call to action and take matters into their own
- 37:06Speaker 3: hands that we've seen at multiple times with a multiple
- 37:08Speaker 3: attempt assassination in terms on Donald Trump's life for example.
- 37:11Speaker 1: All right, we're going to go to a break. When
- 37:13Speaker 1: we come back, look at what's making headlines tomorrow, including
- 37:16Speaker 1: the question about why the increase in citizenship ceremonies all
- 37:20Speaker 1: of a sudden and after a Victorian court undergoes an
- 37:24Speaker 1: it upgrade, magistrates are now using pen and paper only
- 37:28Speaker 1: in Victoria. That's next. There's some great stories in tomorrow's papers,
- 37:37Speaker 1: so we'll go through them for you, starting with the
- 37:39Speaker 1: Daily Telegraph, which has got a headline you will never
- 37:42Speaker 1: believe citizenship for votes under labor? Can you believe that?
- 37:46Speaker 2: Who would have thought? I can't believe it. I'm shocked.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Tell me is what it says. Local councils are being
- 37:51Speaker 1: pushed to increase their number of citizenship ceremonies amid accusations
- 37:55Speaker 1: that the federal government is trying to quote mint new
- 37:58Speaker 1: labor voters. End quote before the next election Council waiting
- 38:02Speaker 1: lists for citizenship have ballooned and are being further fuelled
- 38:05Speaker 1: by record immigration numbers, with almost two hundred and fifty
- 38:09Speaker 1: thousand arrivals in the five months from January to May
- 38:12Speaker 1: this year. New South Wales Parliament Upper House Deputy President
- 38:15Speaker 1: Ron Roberts said the push to bring in more citizens
- 38:18Speaker 1: usually began in preparation for an election. They're trying to
- 38:21Speaker 1: new vote, as he said, people come into the country,
- 38:23Speaker 1: get their citizenship, receive their benefits and feel obliged to
- 38:26Speaker 1: repay the government in some way. Joe, this is a
- 38:30Speaker 1: very cynical view that couldn't possibly be true of labor.
- 38:33Speaker 4: So first you want everybody to be citizens and you
- 38:35Speaker 4: don't want to give any goodies to anyone who is in.
- 38:37Speaker 4: And then when they make all the people's citizens, you
- 38:39Speaker 4: complain about that. There's just no pleasing you. People know
- 38:42Speaker 4: it was only last.
- 38:43Speaker 3: Night I said on the show. Remember Tony Burke's citizenship
- 38:45Speaker 3: tour of Australia before the last election.
- 38:47Speaker 2: Well here we go, where will Tony Burke end up next?
- 38:50Speaker 4: Boking new Australians. This is a wonderful and making new.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Friends of labor at the same time.
- 38:55Speaker 4: Well, if they have to vote for the Australian Labour Party, Wow,
- 38:58Speaker 4: so much the better. Wow, people, that is.
- 39:00Speaker 2: A fascinating story.
- 39:01Speaker 3: Let's take a look now at the Herald's Sun the
- 39:03Speaker 3: headline caught in a time war exclusive Victoria's justice system
- 39:08Speaker 3: in crisis with bungled one hundred and fifty nine million
- 39:11Speaker 3: dollar tech upgrade forcing magistrates to use pen and paper
- 39:15Speaker 3: only in Victoria. Victoria's criminal justice system is in crisis
- 39:19Speaker 3: with a bungled one hundred and fifty nine million it
- 39:21Speaker 3: upgrade forcing magistrates to resort to using pen and paper
- 39:24Speaker 3: and grinding cases to a halt. Less than three weeks
- 39:27Speaker 3: after the rollout of the new case management system across
- 39:30Speaker 3: Victoria's magistrates courts. The upgrade, which is responsible for managing
- 39:34Speaker 3: more than seven hundred thousand listings every year, has now
- 39:37Speaker 3: forced an emergency meeting of senior judicial officers. How are
- 39:40Speaker 3: I other people supposed to be doing their jobs in
- 39:42Speaker 3: courts if they're using pen and paper old.
- 39:44Speaker 2: School style.
- 39:47Speaker 4: Contactases?
- 39:47Speaker 3: I just yeah, Condie, it's COVID stuff. You know you've
- 39:51Speaker 3: got crime going out of control in Victoria. You've already
- 39:53Speaker 3: got magistrates that give the youth offenders a slap on
- 39:56Speaker 3: the rest and that they go back out and the
- 39:57Speaker 3: cycle of crime continues. Oh but's all right now the
- 40:00Speaker 3: magistrates using pen and paper really an absolute terrific This.
- 40:03Speaker 2: Is a real cluster, you know what.
- 40:05Speaker 1: And how do you spend one hundred and fifty nine
- 40:07Speaker 1: million dollars on the upgrade and end up with this result?
- 40:10Speaker 1: And what you'll probably end up with is like the
- 40:12Speaker 1: bomb who say they got any that the out by
- 40:17Speaker 1: like twenty times budget to almost one hundred million dollars.
- 40:20Speaker 4: And the same company does work for a whole bunch
- 40:22Speaker 4: of other comfant.
- 40:23Speaker 1: They gave him more contracts happened with this company, no doubt.
- 40:27Speaker 4: In Victoria, it's fantastic. It's job creation. Let's go to
- 40:32Speaker 4: the Mighty TiSER now. And this is an incredible front
- 40:35Speaker 4: page poetic injustice fury over wife murderers prison awards. I mean,
- 40:40Speaker 4: just take a look at this bloke. You would not
- 40:42Speaker 4: even let your dog anywhere near him. An adulterous husband
- 40:46Speaker 4: who conspired with his mistress to kill his wife is
- 40:49Speaker 4: in a low security prison, winning awards for his sad
- 40:54Speaker 4: love poetry and coloring, in for which the correctional services
- 41:00Speaker 4: and has apologized. I would think they most likely should
- 41:03Speaker 4: have apologized. How does a murderer end up in minimum security?
- 41:07Speaker 3: But also so is he just allowed to submit his
- 41:10Speaker 3: poetry and coloring in books or something.
- 41:12Speaker 1: I'm sure it would be seen as part of his rehabilitation.
- 41:14Speaker 1: Probably he's probably been encouraged by a psychiatrists to, you know,
- 41:19Speaker 1: put it in rhyme and.
- 41:23Speaker 4: I uhould take up water painting as well. Unbelievable anyway,
- 41:28Speaker 4: that's I just I find anyone who writes poetry is
- 41:31Speaker 4: usually a bit sus you know. Then you add the
- 41:34Speaker 4: murder conviction.
- 41:35Speaker 3: And yeah, and by the look of him as well
- 41:37Speaker 3: as you said, yeah, I mean he's got a good
- 41:40Speaker 3: conbo even.
- 41:40Speaker 4: The glasses and the mow alone as a big and
- 41:43Speaker 4: the fingers on the lips. Anyway, Another interesting one that
- 41:48Speaker 4: caught my eye. MP Staffer in boating disaster. Boating disasters
- 41:53Speaker 4: are fine, always always very interesting. Federal South Australia MP
- 41:58Speaker 4: Tony Passen, who of course is a chief confidante to
- 42:01Speaker 4: leader Angus Taylor and who flagged the idea of doing
- 42:04Speaker 4: a deal with one nation or he was slammed for that.
- 42:07Speaker 4: He was slammed in another sense of the word into
- 42:10Speaker 4: the front of an oyster boat while his staffer was
- 42:13Speaker 4: thrown overboard and trapped between the vessel and a sandbar
- 42:17Speaker 4: and seriously injured in a horrific incidant in northern Tasmania
- 42:21Speaker 4: on Thursday morning. Imagine how cold it would have been
- 42:24Speaker 4: as well. Mister Passon told the Advertiser his staff member
- 42:27Speaker 4: was trapped underwater for a minute until he was freed.
- 42:31Speaker 4: The thirty seven year old staffer was taken to hospital
- 42:34Speaker 4: in Lnceston, where he was in a serious but stable condition.
- 42:40Speaker 4: That is terrifying. And if you're anywhere near the shore
- 42:43Speaker 4: in an oyster kind of area, all the rocks will
- 42:48Speaker 4: totally be covered with oysters and they are razor sharp.
- 42:51Speaker 3: So I hope he's all right and sending yeah praise
- 42:54Speaker 3: his way anyway.
- 42:57Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right. Let's go to the front page of
- 42:59Speaker 1: the courier a Mail. The headline reads storm in a teacup.
- 43:03Speaker 1: Former minister said this violent CFMI you assault was just
- 43:06Speaker 1: unions being unions. The article reads that the aggressive and
- 43:11Speaker 1: violence storming of a state government office by CFMU thugs
- 43:15Speaker 1: was shrugged off by the then Transport Minister Mark Bailey
- 43:18Speaker 1: as unions being unions. This is what an inquiry has
- 43:21Speaker 1: been told. A security guard was bowled over after CFMU
- 43:25Speaker 1: members forced open the doors of Transport and Main Roads
- 43:28Speaker 1: Mary Street officers during a twenty twenty two confrontation that
- 43:31Speaker 1: later sparked a series of workplace compensation claims by traumatized
- 43:35Speaker 1: public servants. And so there's a photograph there of someone
- 43:40Speaker 1: who's been thrown to the ground what looks like union
- 43:43Speaker 1: officials standing over him, and you've got the then Transport
- 43:47Speaker 1: Minister to saying, wow, unions will be unions. What do
- 43:50Speaker 1: you expect.
- 43:51Speaker 4: I mean, if we're gonna nitpick here, it is not
- 43:54Speaker 4: unions being unions. Like you don't see the Teachers' union
- 43:57Speaker 4: doing that. You don't see the nurses doing that. I
- 43:59Speaker 4: mean they edit out trans articles that you don't see
- 44:03Speaker 4: the Health Services Union doing that. So it's a union
- 44:07Speaker 4: being a union and I dare say it's the same bob.
- 44:11Speaker 2: Look, that's exactly right. All right.
- 44:15Speaker 3: Let's take a look now at the Australian. You can
- 44:18Speaker 3: have a look there on the bottom left hand side.
- 44:19Speaker 3: Ar Dern unlimited taxpayers eighteen thousand dollars hit Australia's top
- 44:24Speaker 3: government agencies, including Intelligence, Defense and the Tax Office have
- 44:29Speaker 3: spent more than eighty thousand dollars on tickets to send
- 44:31Speaker 3: their staff to a women's leadership summit headline by former
- 44:34Speaker 3: New Zealand Prime Minister just Into ar Dern. Notices updated
- 44:38Speaker 3: on as Tender the government database for Contracts and Procurements
- 44:42Speaker 3: show five agencies have paid between ten and twenty eight
- 44:46Speaker 3: thousand dollars each on tickets for the women Unlimited Leadership
- 44:49Speaker 3: Summit on August eighteen to twenty one. Passes retail for
- 44:52Speaker 3: up to four thousand, four hundred and ninety nine, almost
- 44:54Speaker 3: tripled the price of Taylor Swift's VIP Australian tickets, and
- 44:58Speaker 3: the spend comes just months after Jim Arms and Finance
- 45:00Speaker 3: Minister Katie Gallaher asked apartments to cut down on costs
- 45:03Speaker 3: as spending hit a forty year high. Well this, ladies
- 45:06Speaker 3: and gentlemen, is where your money is going. Isn't that terrific?
- 45:09Speaker 3: Justinto ar Durn's coming and apparently government officials have just
- 45:12Speaker 3: got to.
- 45:13Speaker 4: A team, what a waste of money. They could have
- 45:14Speaker 4: spent that money sending the public servants somewhere which would
- 45:18Speaker 4: actually do them some good. Like Megan Markle's little retreat.
- 45:21Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
- 45:22Speaker 4: That would have been terrific, actually fantastic. Let's just think
- 45:24Speaker 4: about how relaxed and empowered that's.
- 45:26Speaker 3: Just into going to talk about her success during the
- 45:28Speaker 3: COVID pandemic? Is that going to be a topic Number one?
- 45:31Speaker 4: A lot of hugging. I imagine a lot of hugging.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Well, you can't go to any other seminar because just
- 45:35Speaker 1: Aderne is the sole source of truth.
- 45:37Speaker 2: Remember when she declared that, I do remember that.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Yeah, if she hadn't said it, it ain't true. We're
- 45:43Speaker 1: to go to a break when we come back. Chinese
- 45:45Speaker 1: villagers survive Toffoon only to be confronted by nine hundred snakes.
- 45:50Speaker 1: That and more in just a moment, Welcome back to
- 45:56Speaker 1: the program. Well, I thought Joe Biden had disappeared, but
- 45:59Speaker 1: he's still hanging around Deniaka.
- 46:01Speaker 3: He's still mumbling, fumbling and stumbling unfortunately.
- 46:04Speaker 2: And guess what he's written a memoir? Would you believe?
- 46:06Speaker 2: It's called Promise Me America? And gee, what a teaser
- 46:10Speaker 2: this is going to make you want to go out
- 46:11Speaker 2: and buy it.
- 46:17Speaker 5: Since that's the presidency, I've had a lot of people
- 46:20Speaker 5: ask me Joe, what are you doing?
- 46:24Speaker 1: I've written a book about my time as president. It's
- 46:26Speaker 1: called Promise Me America.
- 46:29Speaker 4: It's coming on November.
- 46:31Speaker 5: Why I chose to run for re election and why
- 46:34Speaker 5: I chose to step aside.
- 46:36Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't understand what he said, and I don't
- 46:38Speaker 3: think that he understood either. Was this written by Jill
- 46:41Speaker 3: Biden as she staged left over there instructing him say this, Joe,
- 46:44Speaker 3: well done, you answered every single question.
- 46:47Speaker 2: Now let's publish a memoir.
- 46:49Speaker 1: I mean, i'd Joe Biden and listen to Joe Biden.
- 46:52Speaker 4: That's for sure that it is written by Kamala Harris.
- 46:55Speaker 4: Probably why why hasn't Why is this still happening? No, no,
- 47:00Speaker 4: I tell you what this is leading to. This is
- 47:01Speaker 4: leading to the new Democratic Party of America. Who's poster boy,
- 47:05Speaker 4: of course, is Zoron Mamdani, the socialist mayor of New
- 47:10Speaker 4: York City. And New York City you'll be pleased to
- 47:13Speaker 4: know lists no more, no less, I should say, than
- 47:16Speaker 4: one hundred free places to take in soccer's biggest tournament
- 47:20Speaker 4: on the big screen. But one place that isn't listed
- 47:25Speaker 4: is the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex. Which is
- 47:30Speaker 4: of course known for its overcrowding and violence, and yet
- 47:34Speaker 4: more than one hundred inmates were rewarded with a special
- 47:37Speaker 4: viewing the World Cup semi final between England and Argentina
- 47:41Speaker 4: as a reward for good behavior. And guess who was
- 47:45Speaker 4: amongst them to prove that he's a man of man
- 47:49Speaker 4: of the people. Wow, old zorn Zion Mandani. I mean, honestly,
- 47:54Speaker 4: like that is such a douche move.
- 47:56Speaker 3: Isn't he just the biggestics?
- 48:00Speaker 4: I'm like Johnny Cash, Yeah, he's just pathetic. Why not
- 48:06Speaker 4: do something for like laurabiding people.
- 48:08Speaker 2: Why don't you do something for the homelessness?
- 48:10Speaker 3: Why don't you address the issues in your in your
- 48:13Speaker 3: city instead of.
- 48:14Speaker 1: Pandering slightly different view of this. I found it difficult
- 48:17Speaker 1: to get upset that these are prisoners who have been
- 48:20Speaker 1: well behaved so they get this as a reward, and
- 48:23Speaker 1: the mayor going and encouraging some guys who, you know what,
- 48:26Speaker 1: are trying to put their lives back together. Is that
- 48:28Speaker 1: really a very Christian of you?
- 48:29Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 48:30Speaker 4: I think if it was, if it was Johnny Cash
- 48:33Speaker 4: like yeah, all right, yeah, but you just know that
- 48:36Speaker 4: it's just you can smell the smugness through the screen.
- 48:40Speaker 4: You just know that he's doing it just to show
- 48:42Speaker 4: that I'm the champion of the downtrodden. You know, no
- 48:45Speaker 4: one is too lowly for me not to go.
- 48:48Speaker 1: And if anyone else had done it, to probably be fair.
- 48:51Speaker 4: If I did it, it would be like awesome.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Absolutely pure. A Chinese village survived a typhoon, floodwaters mashing
- 49:00Speaker 1: through the place. The only problem is the floodwaters destroyed
- 49:04Speaker 1: a snake breeding farm. Why you would have a farm
- 49:07Speaker 1: breeding venomous snakes, and so you've got nine hundred snakes
- 49:12Speaker 1: that escape from the breeding farm just floating through the
- 49:16Speaker 1: village in the floodwaters. You survive the typhoon, now you're
- 49:20Speaker 1: going to survive nine hundred snakes, many of them. As
- 49:22Speaker 1: I said, venomous. Can you imagine?
- 49:25Speaker 4: Is my worst nightmare a while since I read Revelations James.
- 49:29Speaker 4: But I'm pretty sure that's in there.
- 49:30Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's the end of the world right there.
- 49:33Speaker 2: It really is.
- 49:35Speaker 1: Monsters.
- 49:36Speaker 4: Imagine that, Like, imagine if you're just sort of wading
- 49:38Speaker 4: through the water.
- 49:39Speaker 1: No one snake is a nightmare. Nine hundred Yeah, that's it.
- 49:45Speaker 1: I'm going through a different village. That's all we've got
- 49:47Speaker 1: time for tonight. Thanks for joining us this week. Don't
- 49:50Speaker 1: forget tomorrow night. Opinionated with the Nika to Georgia at
- 49:53Speaker 1: what time
- 49:53Speaker 3: APM and James McPherson will be a guest star any
- 49:57Speaker 3: shows not on good Night